GNU bug report logs - #53668
Updating substitutes on LAN hosts dies unexpectedly

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Simon Streit <simon <at> netpanic.org>

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:38:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #31 received at 53668 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>,
 Simon Streit <simon <at> netpanic.org>, 53668 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53668: Updating substitutes on LAN hosts dies unexpectedly
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 21:17:14 -0400

Hi Maxime,

Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès schreef op wo 11-05-2022 om 16:58 [+0200]:
>> However, this may well be this ‘guix publish’ bug that was recently
>> fixed, whereby ‘guix publish’ without ‘--cache’ would send bogus HTTP
>> replies:
>> 
>>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/54723
>> 
>> Could you confirm?
>> 
>> Ludo’.
>
> Even then, the error message says ‘wrong type error ...’, shouldn't it
> say something like ‘bogus HTTP’ or ‘bogus narinfo’ or such instead?

I agree that a more accurate error message would have been useful.  If
you have the bandwidth for a patch, I'd be more than happy reviewing it
:-).

Thanks,

Maxim
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